America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

How Lafayette Came to America

2 pages in this part of America First.

How Lafayette Came to America

Lafayette belonged to the highest rank of the French nobility. When he was only thirteen years old, he was left with large landed estates…

How Lafayette Came to America: Paris

Shortly after this, he heard of the American victories at Trenton and Princeton, and, hastening to the American agents in Paris, he said to…

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